Figure and Landscape: Barbara Hepworth’s Phenomenology of Perception

Smith, Rachel

Figure and Landscape: Barbara Hepworth’s Phenomenology of Perception

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Smith, Rachel

Date published

2013

Abstract

Barbara Hepworth’s development of the figure in landscape theme to which she turned increasingly after moving to St Ives in 1939 is considered in relation to the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and, in particular, to notions of embodied experience and interconnectivity.

Journal title

Tate Papers

Issue

20

Publisher

Tate

Place of publication

UK

ISSN

1753-9854

Official URL

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/20/figure-and-landscape-barbara-hepworths-phenomenology-of-perception

Rights statement

In Copyright

Licence

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/